Row to column

can anybody help me..
how to transfer data from row become column

my file is below
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd

and become
aaa bbb ccc ddd

xargs <yourfile
xargs -n4 <yourfile
paste - - - - <yourfile

or

paste -s -d " " <yourfile
awk 1 ORS=" " infile

you can try this also..

Regards,
Usha

:smiley:
open the file in vim, then press:

ggvGJ

How many ways to skin a cat? Here are two more methods to try...

echo `cat /tmp/mb`
echo $(</tmp/mb)

Lot of soutions, you do not nedd another one, that i know. but simply if you want to show ur manager that u uesd lot of things to achive it and ur manager do not undersatnd shell scripting :smiley:

file is input file, opt is output file
for var in `cat file`
do
echo $var" \c" >> opt
done